Improvement in lanterns



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' Improvement in Lanterns.

116,17'T" Patented .Iune20,1871.

-U1\TITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

ORBIN L. GRIDLEY AND CARL ENGELSKERGHEN, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK; SAID ENGELSKERGHEN ASSIGNS HIS RIGHT TO SAID GBIDLEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN LANTERNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,177, dated June 20, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ORRIN L. GRIDLEY and CARL ENGELSKEROHEN, of the city of Buffalo, county of Erie, in the State of New York, have inventedoertain Improvements in Lanterns, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of our invention consists in providing the inner portion of oil-pot A surroundin g the burner B with a transparent perforated disk of mica or glass for the purpose of pre venting the burn er from blowing out whenever the lantern should be used in the open air, and to obviate the obstruction of light.

We refer to the drawing, which makes part of this specification. V

Figure 1 represents the lantern provided with a lard-oil burner, portions of the top of lantern being cut out so as to expose the ends of two of the vertical wires E shaped to a fork, and secured to ring E of wire guard E, as plainly seen. to ring E by means of ahinge and springcatch, as usual. The base and oil-pot A and The top of lantern is secured burner B of lantern are also represented in a sectional cut .so as to show conducting-tubes G O and protecting transparent disk D. The base and oil-pot are secured to the wire guard E by means of a hinge and spring-catch, which catch is secured to the inside of lower band E of wire guard E, and it looks onto the oil-pot -A shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a'plan view of the base or oil-pot A, with burner B and pro- Witnesses H. WM. DoPP, GHARLEs BEAUNLEH. 

